Cristi Scheye
Software Engineer
San Francisco
Self-proclaimed data nerd, who likes learning new things and building useful products.
Currently working at Etsy on the localization and translation team.
I’ve always had a liking and aptitude for data analysis and problem solving, so programming is a natural fit for me. After studying biology and math in college, I decided to learn programming -- mostly on my own, but eventually went to an intensive course for web development to streamline the process. Before landing my first role as a software engineer a few years ago, I also worked at a market research start-up. There I did everything from recruiting participants to data analysis to preparing client presentations.
In my first professional software engineering role at Getable, I worked on projects across the tech stack and at times also fulfilled product manager duties. For my next role I’d like to continue working as an individual contributor, but eventually would like to be in a management role.
Resume
ETSY
San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer Jan 2017 - present
- Replaced legacy MySQL search to Solr; sped up search queries by up to 30 seconds(!)
- Collaborated on a high-profile "trending searches" feature; we brought it from a loosely-defined concept to a full working product
- Led engineering org-wide initiatives: mentoring program, and tech book club (see my notes here)
GETABLE
San Francisco, CA
Lead Engineer, Jan 2016 to Aug 2016
Software Engineer, July 2014 to Dec 2015
- Promoted to tech lead for internal tools, a primary aspect of the business, for consistently shipping well-tested products, quickly and independently
- Designed and implemented event-triggered customer notification system; used the command pattern to track data on the server; integrated with Twilio and Customer IO to deliver notifications
- Substantially improved functionality of the full-stack administrative application used to create and manage orders with features such as geo-searching via integration with the PostGIS extension, editable billing for recurring customers, and custom RPC endpoints that improved order flow.
- Prototyped pages for what has become Getable's main offering, a marketplace for heavy-equipment; compiled analytics generated by the experimental pages into funnel analyses
- Managed product for order lifecycle tools; worked closely with Head of Operations to prioritize features; created design and engineering specifications
- Wrote a suite business analytics queries to track customer acquisition, revenue, conversion rate, funnel analysis, etc.
- Node, Hapi (Node framework), React, Backbone, PostgreSQL, Redis, CouchDB, RethinkDB
EYE FASTER LLC
Walnut Creek, CA
Market Research Analyst, Aug 2013 to Feb 2014
Market Research Assistant, Aug 2012 to Aug 2013
- Promoted to research analyst after teaching myself SQL and performing above average on research assistant tasks
- Data analysis using SQL, Excel, programming, and R for mobile eye tracking research projects
- Transitioned company data storage and analysis from Excel to SQL
- Programmed bash and ruby scripts to significantly reduce project setup time
- Managed the data entry team
- Helped prepare client presentations, with quantitative analysis and qualitative insights based on project video data
- Recruited participants for field studies
Cats in Space
- A feline spin on the classic asteroids game.
- Uses prototypal inheritance to describe different moving objects and keep code DRY.
- Custom-built trigonometric functions to calculate object velocities.
- JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3
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Text Shadow Playground
- An interactive tool for playing around with the "text-shadow" css properties.
- Utilizes React's inline styling to apply the user's styles to the sample text.
- React.js
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BillSplitr
- Bill splitting app modeled after BillPin.
- Custom model logic calculates subtotals owed between users.
- Nested form allows users to post bill and share in one step.
- Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js
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Storylines
- A collaborative story-telling app where users write stories together, one line at a time.
- Uses custom controller and business logic to direct user to the next unfinished story for them to continue.
- Ruby on Rails
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CityVoice
- An open-source project by Code For America.
- Increased test coverage in RSpec and refactored back-end layers code.
- Extracted TwiML generation from controller to xml views.
- Pull requests merged to master branch.
- Ruby on Rails, Twilio, RSpec
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